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Louvre heist gallery to reopen to public on Wednesday

PARIS, France — The Apollo Gallery of Paris's Louvre Museum, where French crown jewels worth 88 million euros were stolen in ...
Artnet

Louvre Launches Design Contest for $400 Million Expansion, Including a New Room for ‘Mona Lisa’

The winner of the international contest will be selected in October by a 21-person jury of experts from around the world and announced early next year. To relieve congestion at the museum’s current ...
Yahoo

Louvre heist raises questions over museum security

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People queue in the Louvre Pyramid courtyard moments before the announcement that the museum will remain closed for a second ...
ELLE

Paris : la pyramide du Louvre aspergée de peinture par des militants écologistes

Ce vendredi 27 octobre, une douzaine de militants écologistes du collectif Dernière Rénovation ont aspergé la pyramide du Louvre à Paris de peinture orange. Ce n'est pas une première pour les ...
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'Angry glances in the street': how Paris met Pei’s Louvre pyramid

The modernist architect I. M. Pei, who has died aged 102, was once pilloried for plonking a glass pyramid into the courtyard of the Louvre, but his controversial creation is now a landmark of the ...
The New York Times

France Opens Competition to Expand Overcrowded Louvre

Architects are being asked to submit proposals for a new entrance for the world’s most visited museum — and to create a new exhibition space for the Mona Lisa. By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris ...
CNN

Paris’ Louvre museum in dire state, problems ‘endanger’ art, director warns in plea for help

Last year, the Louvre welcomed 8.7 million visitors, who all entered via the pyramid-shaped western entrance, designed by architect I.M. Pei, which itself has become problematic as its greenhouse ...